Why I'd Pick Power Over Peace

0:00If you could have all the money and power in the world or just peace, which one do you lean towards? >> It would be all the money and power. >> Okay, I see. >> [laughter] >> Okay, okay, so I'm leaning towards peace. And I feel like you and I were very different on this table, but there's a lot of things that you've done that my whole entire bloodline hasn't accomplished. So let's just put it all on the table. Why is it that you would choose that rather than peace?

0:29>> So I see it as a as a question of utility versus satisfaction. And so I remember wrestling this with with this when I was coming of age. And I thought, you know, I looked at a bunch of scientific literature, like who are the happiest people? So I was very happiness obsessed for like many years of my life. My mother struggled with with mental illness and in the family there's a bunch of bad stuff.

0:57And so I was like, well, I want to try and get ahead of this, you know? And so the people who have the highest subjective well-being ratings, there's one group that's like four standard deviations above most of the population and that's a certain sect of monks that meditate for like 10 plus hours a day. And so they just have like completely, you know, left shifted or sorry, right shifted the the graph in terms of like where they all sit. They're they're just operating at a different level of contentedness with the world.

1:26And so I was very strongly considering like, okay, well, if peace is the goal, then that is the clear path. I can just go be a monk and just do that and that is like that is the most proven way of doing it. And when I thought about that path versus, let's say, let's take a a Steve Jobs or a a Musk or a Bezos, whatever flavor you you have, of the impact that those people had on the world and sometimes to their own I would say great sacrifice.

2:00I would prefer I think maybe on some other level, I would rather get to the end of my life knowing that I had helped many people, and maybe that is a backwards way of getting to my own peace. So, it would depend more in terms of how do we define peace, but >> That's where I want to find the root of it, because when I listen to you speak and I and I I see your metrics on where your theology is. Did you you build men?

2:28>> Mhm. >> You wake up in the morning and your compass is pointed to like how to make my neighbor happier, faster. And so, in my brain, that is a level of peace. Like I know you sat down with people that I even look up to, Tony Robbins and all these other type of people would say helping your neighbor, there's a source of peace to it. >> Mhm. >> That's why I asked the power aspect of it, because I guess my question is, do you are you sacrificing yourself? Have you put yourself in a position that you're like, okay, well, me and my family, we've wrestled with peace. So, if I'm going to keep wrestling with it, let me be the one that wrestles with it and not my neighbors and the ones that I love.

3:14>> I think um I would say that I have a willingness to um more than the actuality of it. I think that I live a very blessed life, if we use if I use that term. >> Yeah. >> Um I I do what I am good at, and I enjoy doing that thing, possibly because I'm good at it. Um and I would say that if you were to ask my team who interact with me on a daily basis, they probably say like, Alex is a pretty happy guy. >> Yeah.

3:39>> Um I enjoy my life. Um that said, I think there's like let's call it 90% of the day when I'm just there's whatever mode we get in when we're like doing things. And then there's maybe the 10% of your life or 5% whatever percentage is for you that's maybe you're a little bit more introspective and you're like, "Hmm, why bother? What's What's the point of all of this?" And I don't think that anyone really has the answer. Of course, there's there's theological answers to that and I I I don't My mother's a born-again Christian evangelical, so I was raised in this.

4:09Um and during that 5 years of like the happiness studies that I did, um I had a trunk at the bottom of my bed, big trunk, and it was filled to the brim of just theological books and um specifically apologetics, so defensive faith for Christianity. And so, I got very deep into that because I thought maybe I can logic my way there. Maybe I can like make a bulletproof argument case for Christ uh Mere Christianity, some of those types of books that are kind of like the the tip of the iceberg. Um but uh to to go back to the original question of like, "Do I feel like I'm sacrificing myself?" Um no, because I think that if you sacrifice yourself, you're giving up something, and I don't think that I've given up nearly as much as many people have given up for me.

4:49>> And you don't have to answer this if you don't feel comfortable, but congratulations on you're about to be a father. >> Yeah. Yeah. >> Does that realm of sacrifice there like does does that enter in your mind? Like usually when a an a man is about to have a baby, he's always thinking of like, "Okay, I should Like for example, you say this to men, 'Work out now. Get on your grind now because later on it's going to be harder cuz you won't be able to sacrifice that time.'" You say you don't sacrifice, but all of your time and energy if it's for money and power.

5:22>> Mhm. >> And I feel like you're smart enough to realize you're not taking that with you. >> Oh, and to be clear, the money and power can never be the goal. >> Yeah. >> It's I translate that into "Would you rather have infinite potential energy that you can transmit into whatever you want or peace?" And I can do a hell of a lot more with power and money. And a lot of people will have a negative connotation to even the words power and money, but power and can be used to build hospitals, save countries, save people.

5:51Um peace can save me. >> Yeah. >> And maybe in the like I think it's a bit of a like have your cake and eat it, too. I think that if I had infinite power and money, I could help a a godly amount of people. Um and probably also uh achieve a certain amount of peace and satisfaction for uh a job well done. >> If you like this video and you're business owner who wants to break through your current revenue ceiling, I distilled every lesson from scaling 10 businesses past 10 million and three businesses past 100 million into a completely free scaling road map that I've used to go from zero to one, zero to 10, and zero to 100 plus. And so you can click here and you can check it out.

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